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• Preamble to the instructions on how to wind a watch

  皿 Think of this: when they present you with a watch, they are gifting you with a tiny flowering hell, a…
  7 Apr, '10

• The library of babel by Jorge Luis Borges

  By this art you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters… The Anatomy of Melancholy, part 2, sect. II, mem. IV
  3 Apr, '10

• Rituals

  I start every morning making coffee. For a long time the routine included putting ground coffee in a very small…
  31 Jan, '10

• Un cronopio no more

  According to the nice domaintools folks, I first registered uncronopio.org on 5 February 2002. That is eight years with a…
  19 Jan, '10

• The art of losing

  皿 Very few things last forever. Forever used to mean a hundred or a thousand years—even the universe had a beginning…
  8 Jan, '10

• Back to Python

  I started using Python way back at the end of 1996 or early 1997. I was working in my PhD,…
  7 Oct, '06

• Two hundred and counting

  This is post two-hundred for this blog that started on Monday 14 July 2003. There have been gaps both on…
  4 May, '06

• Geotagging memory lane

  Google Maps continues to include some higher resolution images (if not maps) for some parts of the planet. I was…
  6 Apr, '06

• Idea fishing, idea growing

  This month I started working for the School of Forestry, University of Canterbury, where I am supposed to teach, supervise…
  31 Jan, '06